Tainted - The Original Game Served With A Twist Of Evil

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Tainted

 

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Tainted offers classic RPG gameplay. The game is not designed to be a doom-laden or blood-drenched horror RPG. Instead, our 'twist of evil' is all about high stakes, suspense, misfortune, changes of pace, gritty encounters and tough challenges.


OGL

• Tainted uses OGL/ SRD content and original content to re-visit the Old School or classic gameplay found in early versions of familiar tabletop RPGs.
• The game draws on favorite monsters, classes and options from many OGL sources and adapts them to fit Old School play.
• We've taken great care to comply fully with OGL requirements. So much so that the project has been digitally archived throughout to maintain a very clear record of all OGL contributions.

Compatibility

• There are no new-fangled combat mechanics or out-of-kilter spells and magic items. Tainted is highly compatible with the Original Game and the Scroll of Wonder.
• The options added in Tainted can all be switched-on or -off very rapidly.
• New content included in Tainted is consistent with the ‘look and feel’ of the Original Game and very easy to drop into any fantasy RPG.

Taint

• Players can choose whether to battle evil, to struggle on the border between good and evil, or to embrace the essence of evil known as Taint.
• Taint doesn’t drive characters completely insane or leave them horribly disfigured. Well, not at first.
• Taint may involve characters in moments of madness, but this is about the option of playing as anti-heroes rather than a free-for-all.

Streamlining

• There’s a single attack chart for all characters. (Ascending or Descending AC)
• Everyone gets levels at the same XP totals.
• Gaps in the range of monsters available at certain levels have been plugged to provide more single opponent encounters.

Characters

• Character generation aims to give a character a touch of the heroic without creating instant superheroes.
• Classes which may have seemed a bit tired have the option of a few extra tricks at the expense of losing XP bonuses.
• Characters start with a wide choice of races and there are no racial caps on levels - unless you want them

Further details to follow, including a selection of sample content.

 

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We've just about finishing preparing our Original Game clone Tainted!

All the content, illustrations and layout are in place - which just leaves some polishing and extra polishing to be done. A finished PDF is going to be ready before the end of November. The game will be then go to a range of distributors and start to become available over the Net during the first week of December.


Time to start to put a bit more 'flesh on the bones'. Our Tainted page already covers what's going to be included in the game in terms of the Original Game and cloning. The following list of features outlines some of the options and content we've added to Tainted - without treading on the toes of the Original Game!

1. Optional rules encourage gritty gameplay using heroic characters.
2. Challenge-focused gameplay.
3. Classic and challenge-based experience (XP) options.
4. New tricks for older classes.
5. New classes, monsters, spells and items, including a selection of monster classes.
6. Support for rapid adventure- and campaign-building.
7. Guidelines on priming and sharing expectations during play.
8. Guidelines on adding a twist of evil to any game.
9. Instant switching between maximum Original Game compatibility or maximum Taint.
10. A tablet-friendly PDF layout.

Back to the polishing now. More details at the weekend.

 

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Should have been putting this out today, but a quick sprint to the finish line suddenly turned into crawling the last few yards - result of breaking a rack of ribs

Such is life and it'll be along shortly now the bandages are in place